Light Your Way

The image-based lighting made famous in the original Toolbag is back and better than ever. The new sky editor features instantaneous processing of background images and one-click light creation. Combined with directional, spot, and point lights with gels and soft shadows, the new lighting system is ready to put your work in its best light.

Get Physical

Toolbag 2 also brings rendering features for physically-based shading workflows. With options for energy conservation, "metalness", realistic Fresnel, and self-occlusion, Toolbag is ready to meet the needs of modern art production.

To have you up and running quickly, Toolbag 2 ships with a full set of physically-based preset materials, featuring PBR scan data from Quixel.

Material Goods

A completely new modular material system has been written for Toolbag 2, making a vast array of combinations possible. Choose the modules that work for you and your workflow from an expanded array of shaders. Alongside the basic albedo, specular, gloss, and normal settings, you will find:

Come One, Come All

Toolbag 2 brings greatly expanded file format support making it the perfect real-time rendering solution wherever you're arriving from. With an über-fast mesh loader, Toolbag will have you rendering millions of polygons in seconds.

Image formats supported:

Portable Network Graphics (.png)

Targa File (.tga)

Bitmap Image (.bmp)

DirectDraw Surface (.dds)

Photoshop Document (.psd & .psb)

JPEG Image (.jpg)

TIFF Image (.tif)

Portable Float Map (.pfm)

Radiance HDR (.hdr)

OpenEXR (.exr)

Mesh formats supported:

3D Studios .3DS

Collada .DAE

Autocad .DXF

Autodesk .FBX

Wavefront .OBJ

Marmoset .MESH (read-only)

One For All

Whether working in games, visualization, or VFX, from pre-production to post-production, Toolbag is an essential tool for each and every 3D artist. Use Toolbag as a final presentation tool for your work, a high fidelity viewer for asset sharing or internal reviews, or as a quick texture & normal map previewer. Or just have fun with it - we think you'll like what you see.